Jan. 20 marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, which ushered in an era of unprecedented attacks on transgender ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

President Barack Obama called on 3,000 LGBT rights activists gathered in Atlanta Jan. 25 to continue working toward full equality in a video message delivered to the 25th annual National Conference on ...

With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in 1992, the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that ...

Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential activists in the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. A drag queen and transgender woman, Rivera was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 ...

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

On a special episode (first released on June 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Stonewall veterans helped ignite a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Now, over 50 years later, they’re battling a new ...

In 1965, Life magazine declared San Francisco the capital of gay America. And the Castro was its beating heart.

I opened an email announcement sent by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, with the subject line: these colors don’t run – Independence Day special. I felt as if I ...